How to get a version of Cocoon in which you can run your own Hippo Site projects.

You can download Apache Cocoon here http://cocoon.apache.org/mirror.cgi.

You may already have a working Cocoon installation built, however you should first check for the blocks that Cocoon requires to run the samples and make sure you have them in your build.

Linux and MacOSX

• Unzip the distribution into a folder on your harddisk, for example ~/hippo/cocoon-2.1.8
• In a new console, type:

  cd \~/hippo/cocoon-2.1.8
  ./build.sh
  

Windows

• Unzip the distribution into a folder on your harddisk, for example C:\Documents and Settings\username\hippo\cocoon-2.1.8 (where username is your user name on the system)
• Launch the Command Prompt (Start > Run > cmd) and type:

  cd C:\Documents and Settings\username\hippo\cocoon-2.1.8
  build
  

Required Blocks

Typically running a Hippo Site that will publish from a Hippo Repository requires that the following blocks are enabled before Cocoon is compiled :

• databases
• eventcache
• jms
• repository
• webdav